Sueños para un cuerpo que no olvida: cartografía del dolor emocional a través de la escritura y la huella

Abstract

This interpretation-creation project arises from a personal experience linked to emotional pain, self-demand, and the search for meaning through artistic practice. Initially, it was oriented toward the possibility of healing suffering through the plastic arts; however, the process gradually shifted toward exploring how art can become a space for recognizing, inhabiting, and resignifying complex emotional experiences. Based on a rhizomatic methodology inspired by the reflections of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, a rhizomatic map is constructed that articulates notions such as body, pain, identity, memory, writing, emotion, and somatization, understood not as closed categories, but as relationships in constant movement. These connections develop through diary writing processes and visual production based on fragments, where artistic practice is understood as a space for sensitive observation and the construction of meaning. The project approaches the body as a territory where emotional experiences, social tensions, and personal memories are inscribed, with particular attention to being a woman and to processes of silencing pain. In this context, creative writing and drawing function as strategies through which lived experiences flow, allowing new forms of relating to suffering to be established without fleeing from it or eliminating it entirely. As a result, the notion of cartography of my body in transit is proposed, understood as an open process of exploration in which creation allows me to transform my pain into trace, image, and language. Rather than demonstrating the healing capacity of art, this approach creates networks of meaning that make possible a more conscious relationship with lived experience. Even in its moments of tension and instability, where the body allows for a dialogue with pain and the acquisition of new forms of understanding.